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In article <1GVsi.91$MT3.34@trnddc05>, DocScorpio@strupra-spammeros.com says...
> 
> I've searched the web and, while you can download the original Wing 
> Commander from several places, the DOS Special Missions and Special Missions 
> 2 expansions are not to be found anywhere.
> 
> Does anyone know of a source for these two expansions?  Any info will be 
> greatly appreciated and will make an old gamer happy.
> 

Hey, I have a CD here entitled WingCommanderII Deluxe Edition
published by Origin, other printing on the CD is VDistronics Technologies
5386 Made in Australia. I haven't got a clue if this is related to what you are 
looking at/for, since I never managed to get this thing to go. However, if I 
want to play spacies I will get [back] to X3 so this thing is up for grabs.

I'll put it to one side here, and if you can tell me what to look for on the CD 
I will happily do so.

cheers,  -Peter

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"Peter Huebner" <no.one@this.address> wrote in message 
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> In article <1GVsi.91$MT3.34@trnddc05>, DocScorpio@strupra-spammeros.com 
> says...
>>
>> I've searched the web and, while you can download the original Wing
>> Commander from several places, the DOS Special Missions and Special 
>> Missions
>> 2 expansions are not to be found anywhere.
>>
>> Does anyone know of a source for these two expansions?  Any info will be
>> greatly appreciated and will make an old gamer happy.
>>
>
> Hey, I have a CD here entitled WingCommanderII Deluxe Edition
> published by Origin, other printing on the CD is VDistronics Technologies
> 5386 Made in Australia. I haven't got a clue if this is related to what 
> you are
> looking at/for, since I never managed to get this thing to go. However, if 
> I
> want to play spacies I will get [back] to X3 so this thing is up for 
> grabs.
>
> I'll put it to one side here, and if you can tell me what to look for on 
> the CD
> I will happily do so.
>
> cheers,  -Peter
>
> -- 
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> firstname dot lastname at gmail fullstop com

I'm looking for the two DOS expansions, Secret Missions and Secret Missions 
2, for the first Wing Commander game.  I'm OK for WC2 and its expansions, 
which is what it sounds like you have.  However, thanks very much for 
looking. 

"DocScorpio" <DocScorpio@strupra-spammeros.com> wrote in message 
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>
> "Peter Huebner" <no.one@this.address> wrote in message
[snip]
>
> I'm looking for the two DOS expansions, Secret Missions and Secret 
> Missions 2, for the first Wing Commander game.  I'm OK for WC2 and its 
> expansions, which is what it sounds like you have.  However, thanks very 
> much for looking.
>
PROBLEM SOLVED!  Found another, working 5.25 floppy drive on a dead 486 in 
my garage (the "pc graveyard"), which I installed in an old P3.

Second miracle of the day:  the 15-year old WC Deluxe Edition floppies were 
still readable.  I quickly copied them all to the HD, then copied them off 
onto 3.5 floppies, transferred them to my main pc........and successfully 
installed SM and SM2.  SM/SM2 both run fine.

There's a lesson here somewhere, that's for sure.  Henceforth, all my WC 
stuff is going to be stored in multiple accessible places (portable HD, 
floppies, CD's) and I'll make sure to upgrade media storage as old types 
become obsolete.  I think the 3.5 floppies are already pretty much obsolete 
and I guess the CD's will be next. 

In article <Zw7ti.358$V53.190@trnddc08>, DocScorpio@strupra-spammeros.com 
says...
> 
> There's a lesson here somewhere, that's for sure.  Henceforth, all my WC 
> stuff is going to be stored in multiple accessible places (portable HD, 
> floppies, CD's) and I'll make sure to upgrade media storage as old types 
> become obsolete.  I think the 3.5 floppies are already pretty much obsolete 
> and I guess the CD's will be next. 
> 

Yeah, my floppy drive has been broken for a year now and I haven't missed it 
once. I'm up to burning double layer DVDs now for backups ... and it's only a 
question of time until _they_ will be obsolete. 

One good reason to keep old hardware about, much to my wife's chagrin who just 
wants to biff everything - until she wants something which I pull out of my box 
of tricks, then she's impressed for about 5 minutes until she wants to biff 
everything again <sigh>. That wanting to chuck my stuff out seems to have 
something of the inevitability of [dog meets lamppost] about it.

-P.

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"Peter Huebner" <no.one@this.address> wrote in message
news:MPG.211ff8be980d3045989d93@news.individual.net...
> In article <Zw7ti.358$V53.190@trnddc08>, DocScorpio@strupra-spammeros.com
> says...
>>
>> There's a lesson here somewhere, that's for sure.  Henceforth, all my WC
>> stuff is going to be stored in multiple accessible places (portable HD,
>> floppies, CD's) and I'll make sure to upgrade media storage as old types
>> become obsolete.  I think the 3.5 floppies are already pretty much
>> obsolete
>> and I guess the CD's will be next.
>>
>
> Yeah, my floppy drive has been broken for a year now and I haven't missed
> it
> once. I'm up to burning double layer DVDs now for backups ... and it's
> only a
> question of time until _they_ will be obsolete.
>
> One good reason to keep old hardware about, much to my wife's chagrin who
> just
> wants to biff everything - until she wants something which I pull out of
> my box
> of tricks, then she's impressed for about 5 minutes until she wants to
> biff
> everything again <sigh>. That wanting to chuck my stuff out seems to have
> something of the inevitability of [dog meets lamppost] about it.
>
> -P.
>
> -- 
> =========================================
> firstname dot lastname at gmail fullstop com

About 6 months ago, my wife brought it to my attention that the city was
collecting old pc's and monitors free for a two day period.  She urged me to
get rid of all those old pc's at the rear of the garage.  I almost did
it.....but something held me back.  That was a close call.  If I'd gotten
rid of the old stuff, I wouldn't have been able to do what I did today.

On Aug 5, 3:10 am, Peter Huebner <no....@this.address> wrote:
> In article <Zw7ti.358$V53.190@trnddc08>, DocScor...@strupra-spammeros.com
> says...
> > There's a lesson here somewhere, that's for sure.  Henceforth, all my WC
> > stuff is going to be stored in multiple accessible places (portable HD,
> > floppies, CD's) and I'll make sure to upgrade media storage as old types
> > become obsolete.  I think the 3.5 floppies are already pretty much obsolete
> > and I guess the CD's will be next.
>
> Yeah, my floppy drive has been broken for a year now and I haven't missed it
> once. I'm up to burning double layer DVDs now for backups ... and it's only a
> question of time until _they_ will be obsolete.
>
> One good reason to keep old hardware about, much to my wife's chagrin who just
> wants to biff everything - until she wants something which I pull out of my box
> of tricks, then she's impressed for about 5 minutes until she wants to biff
> everything again <sigh>. That wanting to chuck my stuff out seems to have
> something of the inevitability of [dog meets lamppost] about it.

This was one of those posts that made me think "this guy is living my
life". Particularly the bit about her being impressed for about five
minutes - I've done that so many times now I can tell exactly when
it's going to wear off and be replaced by the old "so when are you
getting rid of that then".

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